Perissodactyl

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  • noun. Any of various hoofed mammals of the order Perissodactyla, having an odd number of toes, either one or three, on each foot. Perissodactyls include the horses, tapirs, and rhinoceroses.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Odd-toed, as a hoofed quadruped; of or pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Perissodactyla. Also perissodactylate, perissodactylic, perissodactylous.
  • noun. A member of the Perissodactyla; a perissad.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One of the Perissodactyla.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any ungulate mammal with an odd number of toes and belonging to the Perissodactyla, including the horses, zebra, and rhinoceros.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. placental mammals having hooves with an odd number of toes on each foot
  • Word Usage
    ""No, no, my dear Varian, not just a primitive herbivore of this planet, but an Earth-type herbivore, of the group perissodactyl.""
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